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[TUT] Editing Resources .dll etc

How to edit resources:
I have attached the software needed File Editor Suite, also you can get a 30 day free trial of PE Explorer Here
It's all very simple to do just follow the guide any questions feel free to ask.
Also take a look @ Making custom icons to replace the standard icons
Step 1:
Unsign the .dll .dla with File Editor Suites UnSigner.exe, just drag the .dll over the Unsign.exe as show in the picture you wont see much maybe just a CMD "black box" quickly pop up.
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Step 2: Open with ResHacker\PE In PE you have to click the circled item and you will see the resources.
Step 3: Find the resource you want to edit, remebering that the file you will be replacing needs to be same size and bit
Step 4: Save your resource and in File Editor Suite you have siggner.exe click it locate the .dll and press start the process, the .txt file out put will say "Warning: This file is signed, but not timestamped.
Succeeded"
That's it your done
Now use the appropriate software whether it be File Changer or just using Resco File Explorer/Total Commander to replace, if you have a file that can not be overwriten go into the phone find the file change the extension to .bak example: bronzeres.bak

Nice job bud! I like the look of the PE Explorer R5
lets keep the [TUT] going!
PS. for all, make sure to keep the same pixel size on the icons for better quality when displaying on device, for panels not as much, since the .cpr adjusts the size of the panels on the homescreen.

roloracer said:
Nice job bud! I like the look of the PE Explorer R5
lets keep the [TUT] going!
PS. for all, make sure to keep the same pixel size on the icons for better quality when displaying on device, for panels not as much, since the .cpr adjusts the size of the panels on the homescreen.
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Thanks bruv

isn't this all covered in jdshifflets [TUT] ?

Kemekill Products said:
yeah but he deleted it when stylez pissed him off. then he got banned...
And to fianlize what happened he broke the rules with reagrds to direcspect to members no more needed to be said... If anyone has a problem PM me directly
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And then jdshifflets went on and created a new Sock Puppet account using his own address so we'd easily find out he's actually Kemekill.
And if that wasn't enough he didn't do a good enough job covering his IP address.
So until further notice Kemekill will Join jdshifflets in his/their split personality, until this is discussed and investigated.
To add to the Tute.
Sometimes when a file has only one Icon file (like for instance some .cpl files)
You can actually get away by using a bigger .icon file to replace it.
But best practice is to always use the same size and resolution to replace these.
Another Good Resource editor is CFF explorer http://www.ntcore.com/products.php
Or the Classic ResourceHacker.
Also until now i got away without unsigning files just fine, but i always sign them with new cert.
Yes I also wrote a Tute like this , but that has nothing to do with me stepping in here.
I'm just following up and the policy for creating Sock Puppet Accounts after a Ban.
Kemekill won't be back ever, and we (The Moderation Team) are not sure yet how this affects jdshifflets ban.

I've gotten this to work pretty good except for one slight hiccup... the "signer" gives me an error that the signature has expired... any thoughts on how to correct this?

New signer with certs, i'll change the full download when got time.
Edit: Updated File Editor Suite

stylez said:
New signer with certs, i'll change the full download when got time.
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Sweet... thanks alot!!

I see a new Avatar there, cool.
Also when using PExplorer or CFF explorer sometimes you will need to rebuild the header for the file not to break.
At least i know that was the only way of removing \Noui from the first Marketplace exe (and also replacing it with my icon.
So with DLL files i don't expect this to be needed, but if you edit an .exe file and quickly see the .exe icon being replace by a blank icon you know you need to redo it with recompile header.

Thank you wanted to go back to my ninja but he disappeared..
Yeah i had this happening when tried to change everything in start menu to gray Good to know about header

Anyone having challenegs in copying tapres.dll? I can copy bronzeres.dll and open it using PE or Resource Hacker but can't seem to copy the tapres.dll (wchich containts the start menu icon) to my PC for modifying..=(

tapres.dll is a ROM file so you will have to use ROM Extractor and this is not easy as made for PPC, but can be done
In Top Box type\Windows\tapres.dll
In box bellow type tapres.dll
Click Extract.
This will extract it to root of phone memory.

hi folks,
i tried to unsign and open MMAppLauncherCore.dll (after copying to my workstation) which maximus.mobile has made but after the unsign step res.hacker opens a empty file, i do not know why.
can anybody try to open the file too to find out the mistake?
thx

Creating my 1st theme

Well I am now finally going to create my first theme and I am getting myself pretty familiar with everything but I had a question...
I know the stuff that cannot be messed with and all seeing as how I am working with the cm builds but would anyone know where I could find the terminal stuff. I wanted to change up that icon if I could to something a little more theme filling?
Thanks in advance and as soon as I get something going I will posts images.

brilliant - i for one look forward to seeing you work.
but sorry, can't help you with your Q.

APEX.7 said:
brilliant - i for one look forward to seeing you work.
but sorry, can't help you with your Q.
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Terminal stuff?
/apps/term.apk has the terminal app 'stuff'
All you can change images wise is the terminal icon basically.

Are you just wanting to change the terminal icon (such as in the drawer?)
If thats the case, open the apps folder in your ROM and find the term.apk and open that. navigate to the drawable folder and the icon is in there.

Thats cool. Thanks for the confidence boost on creating...

Yeah pretty much just the icon...And thanks all for the help

Question...yet again...
I am using the auto signing program and am signing my little beta theme for testing and when I am loading it via the recovery mode I get E:Can't find update script. I am still new so if any help I would appreciate much.
Also should I include the fonts folder just as a precaution. I am not including that in my theme as I know there is the font chooser program out there as well so I figure let people have there own choice in font...again thanks

Yeah you need an update script, which will be found at /META-INF/com/google/android/update-script
and should look like this:
Code:
copy_dir PACKAGE:framework SYSTEM:framework
copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:
or something along those lines.
This script is assuming your zip file contains the following structure:
/framework
/system
/system/app
There is a simpler one that only needs to contain the second line and has the structure like this:
/system
/system/app
/system/framework

daveid said:
Yeah you need an update script, which will be found at /META-INF/com/google/android/update-script
and should look like this:
Code:
copy_dir PACKAGE:framework SYSTEM:framework
copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:
or something along those lines.
This script is assuming your zip file contains the following structure:
/framework
/system
/system/app
There is a simpler one that only needs to contain the second line and has the structure like this:
/system
/system/app
/system/framework
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Ah ok...Any idea where I can get that file or folder by chance?

holmes901 said:
Ah ok...Any idea where I can get that file or folder by chance?
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Here is a completely blank update.zip that has a proper update script in it, drop your files in re-sign, and go.

daveid said:
Here is a completely blank update.zip that has a proper update script in it, drop your files in re-sign, and go.
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Thanks so much for the download and the help.I should be good to go now so no more worries.

So far what I have for my first
So the screen below shows what I have so far...I am still working on it and hoping I can get the blur transitions into the mix as well as maybe more or better icons...If anyone has a link where I could get the blur transitions from feel free to send my way.
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"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
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holmes901 said:
Question...yet again...
I am using the auto signing program and am signing my little beta theme for testing and when I am loading it via the recovery mode I get E:Can't find update script. I am still new so if any help I would appreciate much.
Also should I include the fonts folder just as a precaution. I am not including that in my theme as I know there is the font chooser program out there as well so I figure let people have there own choice in font...again thanks
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Same problem. Even with the update script in there from the template update folders, I still get this error. I seem to have the resigning working. Any idea how to fix this error?

[UTIL] REG/RGU Cleaner

Hi,
I've been looking for some app, that will take my .reg or .rgu file (dump of WM registry), specially for OEMDrivers rgu, which is over 300kB large, delete duplicated stuff, sort it etc.
That's why I created this app.
What can it do:
- Grabs your input file, goes through it, takes together all registry nodes, when you have some key twice or more times, it gets overwritten so you're sure it isn't anywhere else after that
- Put it back to new output file
- Can remove "padding" zeroes at dwords, like you have "something"=dword:0000001 -- it removes the first zeros. They are not needed there and it is way readable IMHO (maybe not for everybody, so I made it as checkbox)
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It made from OEMDrivers RGU of size 313kB new one with only 270kB! With human readable lines
With version 1.7 I fixed bug, that it got saved as ANSI rather UNICODE (thanks for others noticing that), thus having 50% of file size compared to supposed size. But Unicode is the right way to save that, sorry guys! (Platformrebuilder can use both, but OSBuilder maybe not? Well this is the better way).
Also, with 1.7, there's added option to run it from command line like rgucleaner.exe <sourcefile> <targetfile> and it _should_ close itself, but I'm not sure, I can't test it now. It was done as request
Version 1.8 update -- fixed "="="something" line in Mango beta for HD2. (thanks tslany for reporting). Plus now any problem with parsing line when it fails parsing even before checking if it is correct is now catched too rather crashing and reports the problematic line.

REALLY GREAT THING!!! I'd been looking for such soft )

Wait till I get back, I got updated version, I forgot to include mui_sz registry value kind.

Promising tool...thanks bro...

OK, version 1.2 UP on first post!
Fixed registry, where was - on beginning (delete)
Added support for mui_sz string values

OndraSter said:
OK, version 1.2 UP on first post!
Fixed registry, where was - on beginning (delete)
Added support for mui_sz string values
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great tool bro .......i dont know what are the entries it delete but my rgu changed from 138 ko to 86 ko and i seems my touchflo becames very fast after flashing
thanks once again for this

It doesn't delete anything, but:
1. loads into "virtual registry" as if it was in real registry
2. overwrites stuff that are twice etc (same name in each subkey) -- here gets lost most of the stuff, since many lines are in it sometimes more than one time*
3. and dumps from the "virtual registry"
And yes, for some unknown reason, whole system feels faster. But that's just some kind of psychics LOL.
*EXAMPLE:
[HKLM\something]
"foo"=dword:0000001
"bar"="hujah"
"woohoo"=mui_sz:"phcanoverbmp.dll,#32"
[HKLM\something]
"bar"="newone"
will merge into
[HKLM\something]
"foo"=dword:1
"bar"="newone"
"woohoo"=mui_sz:"phcanoverbmp.dll,#32"
just as in real registry or when going in prb would happen.

Nice work !!!
Thank you

Thanks for this great tool!

Hi OndraSter!
This is a great tool! And too [email protected]#n fast!!! Nice Work again
I was trying to make something like this for cli usage, but failed miserably! lol
So here I am, suggesting you to add a cmd line usage.
Something like :
Code:
RegCleanup.exe -IMGFS -XIP
that could be used while dumping a rom so all the registry files from imgfs and xip would get cleaned up!
Just a suggestion...
Anyway, thanks for all your work!
Regards!

Hi kokotas,
You mean like go through all packages and clean their registry files?
I think it is possible, Ill look on it when I get some time

Hello,
OndraSter thank you for this handy utility. I'm having a problem with the RGU attached. We hope you find its origin.
By.

Fixed, nasty bug
It was reading line 844
"DialSuffix"=";"
and everything after ; was marked as comment and didnt check if it isnt in " actually.
Should be working now, it parsed it fine (Version 1.3)

Thank you very much

Tested it with the driver's .rgu and it is a very nice tool - cleaner and better readable registry files - nice

I'm having a problem with the RGU attached v1.3

Yay your RGU was devil's made
Never seen (not sure if they are actually supported!) comments in rgu like
/* something */
or lines with just ========================
So I added checkbox "inform on incompatible lines" which, when checked, will popup lines it failed to load
Also I fixed the
"something"=-
lines, which were supposed to get deleted (but they didnt in previous versions)
1.4 up!

Thank you for your program!
Now everything works perfectly

How to use this program? Can guide me along? Thanks...

The smile means that you are just joking?
Just click on Input and select input file (the one that will be parsed)
Then click on Output and select output file (there it will be saved)
and click on GO

[DEVTOOL] Saint's Color Editor v1.1 (changing colors in Android XML files made easy)

Saint's Color Editor v1.1​
I developed this tool to easily edit android colors in decompiled xml files. I'm sharing it here to help other themers because personally I found changing colors in xml files as the most painful part of theming.​
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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Download ColorEditor.zip (v1.1)
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Change Log
Version 1.1
* Looks up and loads named colors like @color/black from the same xml file and also interprets standard named colors
* Improved error handling​
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How to install and use?
Pretty simple..
- Unzip ColorEditor.exe anywhere you like and run..
- You must have Microsoft .NET Framework 4 installed on your pc
- Open any android xml file that contains colors
- Click on colors you want to change and choose alternate color from the color dialog that pops up (the app will automatically identify the hex code)
- When you are done, hit File/Save or Saveas..​... as simple as that
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Remember to thank me if I made your life easy.. Cheers..​

Thx for this mate. Ill try and give feedback. Quite nice idea i must say
Cheers,

Vertumus said:
Thx for this mate. Ill try and give feedback. Quite nice idea i must say
Cheers,
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Redownload again.. I made a fix since some standard color hex values were not translated properly and I have also included a Undo/Redo functionality..

I don't know why this tool did not got any attention from themers, since it is quite handy.
Thanks mate, again

Very great work mate!
I'll try it!
Big!

Vertumus said:
I don't know why this tool did not got any attention from themers, since it is quite handy.
Thanks mate, again
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people are probably used to notepads i guess

Notepad++ actually
Thanks for the tool!
Sent from my #sgs2

Very good tool definately makes changing colors easy. One question is do you use this to change the colors.xml from framework res cause i seem to just get boot loops whenever changing a couple of colours in that file even if just copy the resources file to a working framework res still get a bootloop. Not sure what to try. I only change the clock and secondary text colour. Any help would be great.
Thanks
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

Thanks Very nice tool

Thanks for the tool. Definitely a handy one to go in the collection.

txr33 said:
Very good tool definately makes changing colors easy. One question is do you use this to change the colors.xml from framework res cause i seem to just get boot loops whenever changing a couple of colours in that file even if just copy the resources file to a working framework res still get a bootloop. Not sure what to try. I only change the clock and secondary text colour. Any help would be great.
Thanks
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
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Yes, I use this a lot to change colors.xml and no I never had boot loops. Boot loops cannot be due to changing colors. It could be due to the way you compile the apk's. For system apk's try not to flash signed apk's. I used to get boot loops when I sign system apk's. Flash only unsigned system apk's. Hope this helps...

hi i want to change the color of like the text in messages, the text which you type out, which value should i edit in my framework color.xml?

csc opening file.rsr

hello
i can't open file rsr with p3do explorer it says me acces violation
how can i open this file ? it's not an image ?

yakapa40 said:
hello
i can't open file rsr with p3do explorer it says me acces violation
how can i open this file ? it's not an image ?
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You can see file rsr with Wave Remaker.
Read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=984482&page=27

thanks
i know how i can see file rsr i'm testing a custom csc on my wave 723
i've find :hexedit

You can edit rsr file with Wave Remaker
There is import/export function to edit languages in txt format
Also rsr files from the CSC from the SDK are very useful....those contain all the languages supported so far
It is not an easy job but it is not too hard to do
Best Regards

i would like to delete some languages from xxx.rsr
with samsung geextractor it's too long file by file
with wave remaker key delete run but not save
is there another solution ?

yakapa40 said:
with wave remaker key delete run but not save
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Instead yes, with wave remaker you can save it. See here:
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"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
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Hello,
I made a small program to edit and compare .rsr files.
This is an alpha version, there is still a lot of bug.
It exists only in French for now.
Tell me what you think.
Thank you
Download:
-http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8nb562511ebtc18
-http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40346750/LBE/Langage%20Bada%20Editor%20V1.0.0.0%20Alpha.rar

wave remaker : i've not see control file for saving
thanks every body

matheo1010 said:
Hello,
I made a small program to edit and compare .rsr files.
This is an alpha version, there is still a lot of bug.
It exists only in French for now.
Tell me what you think.
Thank you
Download:
-http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8nb562511ebtc18
-http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40346750/LBE/Langage%20Bada%20Editor%20V1.0.0.0%20Alpha.rar
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Thanks! Awesome! Can I help you to translate it in Italian and English?

to aurex
no, thanks for me ,my job is done new file string:1,74 Mo (original::5,12 Mo)

yakapa40 said:
to aurex
no, thanks for me ,my job is done new file string:1,74 Mo (original::5,12 Mo)
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I was referring to matheo1010

RSR Editor
hi, it's me again
yes I know Wave Remaker do this for a long time. However, something was missing
2nd thing - i measured time I was writing this script and, to be honest, i would NOT feed my family if want to do this as my basic way to make money, seriously. I spent over 3 hours to write that script and i must admit I could better spend that time
now it's time for small preview
Code:
Rsr Editor
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<1.> Select languages
<2.> Parse rsr to xml
<3.> Parse xml to rsr
<0.> Quit
Select languages you want to preserve or press enter to exit (STRING_ID is dumped anyway).
ENGLISH selected
POLISH selected
done
Rsr Editor
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<1.> Select languages
<2.> Parse rsr to xml
<3.> Parse xml to rsr
<0.> Quit
processing /SystemCSC/String/...
parsing Admin.rsr...OK
parsing AppTimer.rsr...OK
parsing AppWidget.rsr...OK
parsing BluetoothApp.rsr...OK
parsing BookmarkViewer.rsr...OK
parsing Browser.rsr...OK
parsing CallCommon.rsr...OK
...
HTML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<LANGUAGES>
<STRING_IDS>
<IDS type="ASCII">IDS_FM_BODY_ALTERNATIVE_FREQUENCY</IDS>
<IDS type="ASCII">IDS_FM_HEADER_FM_RADIO</IDS>
<IDS type="ASCII">IDS_FM_BODY_MHZ</IDS>
<IDS type="ASCII">IDS_FM_POP_EARPHONE_NOTCONNECTED</IDS>
...
</STRING_IDS>
<LANGUAGE>
<ID type="INTEGER">1</ID>
<NAME type="ASCII">ENGLISH</NAME>
<STRINGS>
<STRING type="ASCII">Alternative frequency</STRING>
<STRING type="ASCII">FM radio</STRING>
<STRING type="ASCII">MHz</STRING>
<STRING type="ASCII">Earphone not connected</STRING>
<STRING type="ASCII">Frequency</STRING>
...
</STRINGS>
</LANGUAGE>
</LANGUAGES>
br